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Word: bathroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers and four members of their families. A tool shed on wheels, housing five, rented for $50 a month. IJ A shack made of whisky bottles, beer cans and oil cans, cemented together, cost a corporal, his wife and two children $25 a month. There was no bathroom. The water supply: an untidy well next door.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Anything for the Boys | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...Oxford students themselves cash in on the tourist-trade boom? His undergraduate friends agreed, and within a few days he had signed up 90 of them to act as guides at IDS. a tour. He gave them careful instructions ("You know, point out the Dean's bathroom and that sort of thing"), and to add a bit of glamour, he even hired some London models to accompany each bus out of London and point out the sights along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford Tour | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...reader; the boy, boat, and body get lost in the flood. William Morgan's "The Cowgirl" is a long synoptic anecdote about a girl from Alabama who goes to New York with a man named Goldstein and ends up shooting at him through a bathroom door. The humor of the piece hangs largely on the contrast between the girls' quaint narrative style and that of Mr. Goldstein; the girl spends a great deal of time emphasizing that her first husband was one of "the greatest housepainters that ever lived." This goes on for five pages and is not very funny...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Marcus W. C. Gregory '54 (at right), who has been catching dripping water from a bathroom above for several weeks now, was glad to hear this. Students in Thayer South have been signing a petition complaining that repairs now being made in the North and Middle entries would not be extended to their end of the dormitory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roberts Denies Shortage of Funds Will Delay Repairs in Thayer South | 2/13/1951 | See Source »

...aroused freshman pointed disgustedly to his ceiling, from which water drips freely and frequently onto his desk and floor from the bathroom upstairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thayer Residents Protest Condition | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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